The Best Eating Walleye From Devils Lake is a 13 incher!! We call them sandwich eyes for a reason, they make perfect sandwiches. The cleaning station hero, macho, tough guy frowns upon them, but if subsistence is what you are after when it comes to why you hunt and fish, the 12-15 inch walleye is what you should be after.…
Category: Ice Fishing
Wednesday Weekly Ice Conditions Report #6
7.5 More Inches Of This White Crap Is Not Good! Well, we were due for one of these winters, and here it is. Seven and a half inches more of this white stuff has travel on the lake basically down to sleds, four-wheelers with tracks, side-by-sides with tracks, Sno-Bears, or hoofing it. Luckily, there are places in town that will…
Fish Behavior and Fish Activity
Pike Invasion When the slimers move into a shallower area where the Perch have been active, this scatters the Perch schools. This has happened to two of our really good early ice perch spots in that 18-25 foot water depth. When this occurs, generally speaking, we start to find good schools on intermediate shore line ledges. That was the case…
DLFR MONDAY FISHING REPORT #5
Sunlight as Opposed to Overcast and Perch Activity Explodes Under the Bright Lights Our original destination for the weekend was accessible (barley) by full sized truck We got there and do our chagrin, it had been invaded by the dreaded Pike. We are not Pike enthusiasts, however, if you are here is a Pike-a-Paloosa for you if you want to…
Wednesday Weekly Ice Conditions Report #5
Blizzard Europa Was Not The Ice Fisherman’s Friend We have a lot of snow now, more than we wanted at this time. Ice production will be brought to a stand still and accessing the lake is a problem right now. We walked out off of Highway 20 into East Bay yesterday and it is foot drift after foot drift interupted…